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...went for two, and failed. As Turner Gill, Nebraska's brilliant, dexterous quarterback, rolled to his right, he had back-up I-Back Jeff Smith open for a split second. He unloaded, only to see a Miami player dive and break it up at the last second...
...board who can baby-sit. He predicts that the publicly traded ones that are left to their own devices will come to a bad end. The six China stocks on the N.Y.S.E. have recently headed in the direction he predicts. Brilliance China Automotive has been much less than brilliant, dropping from 29 7/8 at the height of Sinophoria in 1993 to the current 11 78. The once celebrated Shanghai Petrochemical is down as well, along with Shandong Huaneng Power, and its not too distant relative Huaneng Power, brought to New York by Lehman Bros., has been a turkey...
...HERE'S A BRILLIANT, BROODING novel, a literary work of the first class, built around a confounding falsification by the author that reduces the entire book to the level of a clever and nearly meaningless stunt. Find an explanation...
...brilliant Stolen Moments is an openly contentious album. Most of the songs deal with aids, and each of the tunes pairs rappers with jazz performers -- rapper Guru with Donald Byrd, the spoken-word group the Last Poets with saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders, Digable Planets with guitarist Wah Wah Watson and trumpeter Lester Bowie. Age is coupled with youth, cool with anger, and the result is music with a caustic beauty...
...wonders and we wonder. The scene is from Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert's brilliant documentary "Hoop Dreams," a lyrical meditation on basketball, ambition and the depravity of inner-city life. Gates is one of the film's truth-tellers. He is aware--if only at moments--of the terrible burden of potential and its cruel habit of leaving behind a trail of unfulfilled dreams and unrealized promise...